The Arizona champion., 1887-05-21

Max Salzman is waiting on the many customers who daily throng the store of Nathan Earth. His brother lake and himself are courteous and obliging and are gaining in populari- ty every day.
 Ransom Post No. e are making preparations for observing memorial day on Monday May goth which the general public are invited to attend |. Full details will be announced on Saturday next.
 Attention is called to a new adver- tisement of Landing and Reilly, blacksmiths, etc., in this issue, who are occupying the new building in the rear of the Grand Army hall. Both are excellent workmen and Mir. Land ing is the oldest blacksmith on the Pacific coast.
 The man, James Murray, who was sent to the Prescott hospital from here on Sunday last while suffering from pneumonia. Alter leaving the train at Prescott and before reaching the hospital, dropped to the sidewalk in an unconscious condition and died the next morning.
 The party consisting of Gen. and Mrs. Butler, Levi Bashford and wife, T. G. Norris and wife and Rev. J, G.. Eberhart and wlie, that went ont to the Grand Canon last week returned on Monday delighted with their trip. General and Mrs. Butler went on east where they will remain for several months and Mir. aLd Mrs. Bashford and MT. and Mrs. Eberhart returned to Prescott.
 The bell for the new church arrived on Thursday from Baltimore, MI. where it was manufactured a; the fi. nous McShane bell foundry. With the apparatus for swinging it weighs 1900 pounds the bell alone weighing 900 pounds. It will be fixed in its place by Wednesday next and on the even ing of that day it will be rung for the first time to summon the congregation and friends of the church to a supper party which will be given to celebrate the occasion.
 Chas. Geach, who represents Chas. Zeiger, of Albuquerque, was brought up before Geo. H. Tinker, justice of the peace on Thursday last, charged by deputy sheriff, John w. Francis, with evading law passed by the last legislature imposing a tax of $50 per quarter on commercial travellers or drummers doing business in the terri tory. T. G. Norris appeared for the defendant. As the law distinctly states that the Incense must be paid by all who sell goods by sample and as no samples of any kind could be found in Mir. Gcach's possession, he was discharged.
 As an illustration of the difficult y in arresting a misStatement of fact when 1t once gets a start, the AL buquerque Democrat, on the day af- ter Capt. BuIlwinkle's death, publish. ed what purported to bs telegram from Flagstaff stating that he died from pneumonia. It was set righ; the next dLy and the tru. story of his sad death told But too late; the first message had been flashed over the continent and even in his former home, Chicago, all the papers pub lished accounts of his death and at tributed it to pneumonia.
 The Brannen addition, situated on the southern side oi the railroad, at the eastern end of the town, is now being surveyed and laid out in lots. Those deslrous of securing a beauti. fully located mountain home, in a climate that cannot be surpassed, can do so by calling at the store of P. ]. Brannen. There is an undisputed title to this land, and the lots are laid out 50 by Iso feet each lot, with l75 to I5o feet avenues. Call early and select your lots. This is the most desirable property for either business or family residences in the town of Flagstaff.
 On this page will be found the new advertisement of Messrs. Hale Bros & Co.,, of Sacramento, one of the lar gest and most complete mercantile es, tablishments on the Pacific coast. Every article that can be used as wearing apparel for men, women or children and every thing needed in household furnishing will be found in their catalogue at prices the lowness of which are simply astonishing Send to them for a catalogue which will be mailed to any address on ap. plication. Any articles will be for warded by mail or express by this firm and buyers can choose their goods and have them forwarded as satisfactorily as if personally selected in the store.
 Geo. P. Muir, for long time tele graph operator at Prescott, commit ted suicide on Saturday last at Albu. querque. Several months ago he left Prescott and went east to New York state and sometime last week returned tc Albuquerque on his way to Arizo- na. He had been indulging in drink very heavily but when last seen on Saturday he had apparently sobered up to considerable extent and talk ed rationally to acquaintances that he met. Later m the day he was found laying near an acequia on the out. skirts of the town, his throat fearfully